Red Sox gear flies off the shelves

Twelve hours after the Red Sox swept the Colorado Rockies on Sunday night, Spencer Sanchez of Weymouth already had his souvenirs – an armful of World Series “locker room” caps and T-shirts.

Lane Lambert

Twelve hours after the Red Sox swept the Colorado Rockies on Sunday night, Spencer Sanchez of Weymouth already had his souvenirs – an armful of World Series “locker room” caps and T-shirts.

“For me, my uncle and aunt, for my fiancée and maybe her younger sister,” Sanchez said, nodding toward his fiancée, Mary Chang, who was with him around noon Monday at The Sports Authority in Braintree.

Sanchez was among hundreds of fans who flooded local sporting goods stores as early at 6 a.m. in the first wave of championship buying.

Manny Ramirez wasn’t moving many shirts yesterday after a lackluster World Series, but third baseman and Most Valuable Player Mike Lowell had his fans.

“He’s MVP, and no Mike Lowell?” Judy Reardon of Braintree said as she browsed the racks at The Sports Authority.

At Pre Game Sports in Marshfield, manager Lisa Seyffert said she’s been out of Lowell shirts since before the playoffs. She didn’t get the locker room shirts and caps in time for the morning rush, so she had to put about 50 customers on a waiting list and post a “later today” placard in the store window.

Seyffert said jerseys for Beckett, closer Jonathan Papelbon and first baseman Kevin Youkilis were popular throughout the playoffs.

She’s expecting to get a stock of women’s and toddler’s T-shirts today, and a World Series onesie within a few days.

For the moment, “everybody’s looking for the official stuff,” said Chamberlain, who helped check out an eight-deep line of customers. “The pencils and license plates will come later.”

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